Google Foreclosure Maps–gone!

Searches for real estate foreclosures on Google Maps are censored no longer possible.

Google has announced removal of all real estate listings from their Google Maps platform:

In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real estate websites, and the infrastructure challenge posed by the impending retirement of the Google Base API (used by listing providers to submit listings), we’ve decided to discontinue the real estate feature within Google Maps on February 10, 2011. (Source)

Some people ask if Google might have somehow removed foreclosure maps as part of a supposed “cover up” of the accelerating real estate crash in the U.S. (eg., Another Flood of Foreclosures on the Way).

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